I just woke up from my very first nightmare of the year 2009. As of now, it’s also officially one of my worst. Here’s how it goes -

I was using my MacBook to burn a DVD when somebody threw a football at me. I was so absorbed in the activity that I failed to catch the football and it hit my laptop so hard that the lid got unhinged and flew off, landing a few feet away. Strangely enough, I wasn’t mad at all. I just took the wounded MacBook to a nearby repair shop, and the guy agreed to replace the lid for free. Since he didn’t have a lid for the white MacBook, he gave me one from the black MacBook instead. Now my laptop was a one-of-a-kind hybrid of the white and the black MacBooks. It was dead sexy.

Fast forward a few hours. I’m at a party at somebody’s house, using my laptop to show something to my cousins. A lady wearing heavy gold jewelry and an expensive sari walks in with her husband. The husband is middle aged and balding, and looks like the typical management guy. Pointing towards me, the wife exclaims to the husband, “Hey! Even that guy has the same laptop as yours.”. Surprised at how a management guy could own an interracial MacBook, I turn my laptop around to take a better look. It turns out the black lid wasn’t from a black MacBook after all.

The lid now has a pulsating logo that reads – “Dell”.